I'm not new to p2p, but I am new to Limewire. When I downloading I'm informed I have very strong connection to the network, only to be informed minutes later I'm not fully connected. This makes for rather sluggish downloads.

My current firewall is Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6. When I'm using any p2p client I also use Peerguardian 2. Is my firewall adequate, or should I change it to something like Zonelarm. I'm simply wondering if my current firewall is too aggresive.

Tom

Did you configure it to allow LimeWire (LW)? (advisable not to have 2 active firewalls b/c they can interfere with each other); Firewall configuration instructions (click on link)

Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface?

Depending on your connection, sometimes if LW is overworked its connection can suffer. At least that's with LW Basic. Using the Resume/Find Sources on too many files at once can have that effect!!!

hello i am also having fire wall issues,,can you help me..it seems you know more than me..any help would be greatly appreciated..thanks

The problem is most likely your connection device which probably has an internal NAT firewall. Enabling UPnP or else, forwarding a port is the way to go. Connection problems? Check here first! (click on link)

Also see birdy's advice here http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...417#post226417

I tryed to configure Norton Personal Firewall to allow me to access LW. I dont know what my problem is. I believe that I have Windows Firewall on my computer as well. I configued that by following the instructions that were provided on the site. Does anyone have any suggestions?

1. Yes ... turn your XP firewall off. Just in case ... http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...842#post178842

2. (a) Configuring Norton Internet Security, & (b) Reconfiguring Norton Firewall

3. Are you sure you don't have a modem/router NAT firewall issue also? What brand & model of connection device do you have? Details are very important!

I turned the Windows firewall off. I however have a Linksys model number BEFW11S4. Any suggestions?

Make sure UPnP is enabled: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...sBEFW11S4.mspx

If necessary port forwarding is: http://portforward.com/english/route...4/Limewire.htm

And I don´t know what to do !!! If I try to change the listen of port by a new port between 10000 to 60000 which is recommended all of those ranks are unfortunately in use !!! What can I do? Please help?

Choose one firewall & turn the other off. Anti-virus is not a firewall. But if your Panda includes a firewall, then make sure Windows firewall is turned off. Go to your control panels & make sure windows firewall is off. And for Panda, add LimeWire as an exception. That is of course if your Panda also has a firewall.